Top 100 pink wines of Niagara Peninsula

Discover the top 100 best pink wines of Niagara Peninsula of Niagara Peninsula as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the pink wines that are popular of Niagara Peninsula and the best vintages to taste in this region.

Discovering the wine region of Niagara Peninsula

World reference for Icewine: concentrated sweet wines from grapes frozen on the vine, golden colour, signature notes of candied apricot, mango, honey, citrus and exotic fruit, high sugar balanced by lively acidity. 90% of Canadian Icewine (Vidal for fruit, Riesling for finesse). Cool-climate still wines: mineral Riesling, precise Chardonnay, fine Pinot Noir, peppery Cabernet Franc. Southern shores of Lake Ontario.

VQA, 5,200 ha.

Discover the grape variety: Pinot Meunier

Vinified almost exclusively as a base for Champagne AOC, where it brings freshness, fruitiness and immediate roundness to blends (apple, pear, red fruit, brioche notes); it is the most approachable young of the three Champagne varieties. Represents about one third of plantings, the absolute signature of the Vallée de la Marne. Also vinified as single varietal by some growers (blanc-de-noirs meunier champagnes). A cottony-leaved mutation of Pinot Noir, autochthonous to Champagne.

Food and wine pairing with a pink wine of Niagara Peninsula

pink wines from the region of Niagara Peninsula go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or pork such as recipes of beef tongue with mushrooms, pork tenderloin with mushroom sauce or cassoulet.

Organoleptic analysis of pink wine of Niagara Peninsula

On the nose in the region of Niagara Peninsula often reveals types of flavors of strawberries, raspberry or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit, red fruit or cherry.